The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-01-08
News of the Week.

South America.
Nine men were killed by the collision on
the Southern Pacific Railroad near DEVILS
Run, last Friday night.
The public debt statement for December
shows decrease of So, POP. Total cash
in the Treasury, Sil4, 9l5,79l.
The New York Commercial Bulletin esti-
mates the losses by fire in the United States
and Canada during 1886 at Sl1G,000,000.
Right Rev. Horario Potter, Bishop of the
Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York,
died on Sunday, in the s5th year of his age.
The boiler of Thompson's saw mill near
Geneva, Crawford county, Penna., burst on
Monday, killing three men and injuring a
fourth.
The Judges of twenty counties of Texas,
comprising the drought stricken district, were
in session at Albany, in that State, Monday.
They report that in the aggregate 27,900per-
sons are in actual need of food and clothing
John Roach, the shipbuilder, is dying in
New York OF disease similar to that which
caused the death of General Grant-epithe-
lioma. In Mr.. Roachs case the location of
the cancer is the roof of the mouth, instead of
the throat.
Gen. w. w. Loriug Pasha, formerly Of the
United States army and the Confederate army
and later the commander of Loring's Corps,
in the Egyptian army. died of pneumonia at
the ST. Denis Hotel, New York, on Thursday
evening of last week.
The President, though still suffering some
what from rheumatic pains, resumed his
official duties on Tuesday morning. He had
interviews with the Civil Service Commission
ers and Comptroller Trenholm, and presided
at the Cabinet meeting in the afternoon.
The measles epidemic in New York is said
to be on the wane, though there were 46S
cases and GO deaths last week. The disease
is as prevalent in Williamsburg and Jersey
CITY as in New York There were also 104
cases of diphthcria and 40 deaths in New
York last week.
Emperor William on January 1st celebrated
the eightieth anniversary of his entrance into
the Prussian army by receiving all his COM
handing Generals, headed by Crown Prince
Frederick William. The Crown Prince adj
dressed the Emperor and presented the
congratulations of the army and the nation.
An express train struck a sled, containing
twenty young people, at a crossing, near Fort
Wayne, Indiana, on Saturday evening killing
two women and injuring seven others. The
men in the party saw the train approaching
and asked the driver to stop. He did not
hear them and they escaped injury by jumping
out.
On Sunday last the chief part of the West
was covered from three to six feet deep with
snow At Michigan City, Indiana, snow was
five feet on level and six feet in ravines.
The storm was very severe in Ohio and in
parts of Pennsylvania and New York. Rail
road travel was delayed or entirely suspended
for several days.
The funeral of General John A. Logan
took place December 81, in Washington.
Services were held in the Senate chamber and
were attended by distinguished assemblage,
including Justices of the Supreme Court Of
the United States, members of the Cabinet,
Senators and Representatives and members Of
the Diplomatic Corps.
In Bedford county, Va, Christmas day
some boys tied a pack of lighted fire-crackers
to the tail of a dog near Professor II. II.
Meredith's barn. The dog ran into the barn
and the fire. crackers set fire to the building
The building was burned, with % barrels o
corn and forage, and the professor bare -
ed his cattle and horses. -
The house of Don D2S
Brazilian MipiS.sr. in "
ed on Thurs !n1( Ill!ss week o. -
worth of ierelry and other valuables and
some cesi, by F. B. Silva, discharged ser.
vapt.-' The robber was arrested the next
niornng while boarding a train for New York,
and the valuabes were recovered:
A dispatch from Berlin, Prussia, on De-
cember 80, SAYS The removal of the snow
which fell in the late storm has revealed an
appalling loss of life. Many travellers were
overtaken by the storm. Fifty bodies have
been found in Saxony, thirty in Thuringla
and forty in Southern Germany. 1t is esti-
mated that the total l~ss of liG--.FFoD1e
nearly goa be better to let her out in tn
There l commenced milking, so | OF jail
Califc door and invited her out in the5c,
ilnelnsen became confused about wi ! 'iuts;
pparioapproadh her from did fruits ent which i
&eaaesiier tffs SFde was errstur. he
oranAthe south side"rae one. 1Ay produc,
ed in commenced milking, but boyes of
paIi the wrong side, for the Snan nmd
experts flying through space the Spanish
box from ,atellation. That eowA
In Chicago, me clean throus last week
Michael Maloney, drunk ta7w whe tered with
blood. went to the police station and said that
he had cut the threats of his daughter and son.
Officers went to the mans house and found
that the two children had attempted to put
Maloney to bed. He angrily resisted and
drawing knife plunged it into his sons neck.
Maloneys 11.year-old daughter rushed be-
tween the father and son only to receive Il
slash uuder the arm. Ths bays wound is
probably fatal, but it is believed the girl Will
recover.
Judge Daniels, in General Term of the Su-
preme Court, in New York city, on Monday
rendered a decision in a suit, in which he
holds that combinations 10 keep articles of
food or other necessities off the market, with
the view of gaining higher price for them,
are unlawful conspiracies, punishable as a
crime. Where successfully carried out, the
effect would be to impose an additional bur
den on the public. 1t is nothing less than
respectable robbery unsanationed by law
There are no legal means TO force division
of the plumber"
Temperatures were reported on Monday
morning ranging from l to Is degrees below
zero in Illinois and 10 to 35 below in Mime
sofa and Dakota. AtNorth Platte, Nebraska,
it was below zero. At Lafayette, Indiana,
it was % below, and at Sheboygan Michi
gan, Is below. In Northen New York,
near WATERFOWL, 40 below zero was register
ed. Throughout Ontario, Canada, 10 to SO
below zero was reported. A telegram from
the city of Mexico reports the appearance of a
severe cold wave there on Monday morning,
thin ice forming in several places pear the
city.
William Poole and Joseph Font wore on
Saturday released from Sing Sing Penitelli--
airy, where they were serving life sagtences
for the murder of John Ryanin~New York
city in 1877. they having/5een pardoned by
Governor Hill. In hisstatement of the case
the Governor ss,S-s That The was influenced
thereto hX-H1c statement of Police Captain
He1nedy, on his death bed, that the police
men on whose evidence the men were con-
victed had committed perjury, and by the
well aitested and extraordinary fact that at
least two of the jurors who sat in the case
were in the iury-box under aliases, represent
ing two reputable citizens"
A telegram from Wilkesbarre says that all
the collieries in that region shipping over the
New Jersey Central Railroad we're idle on
Tuesday, except two, on account of the strike
of the dock hands ut Port johnson and Eliza
bethport. The Red Ash aad Hanover collie
ries We're working to fill lot of orders already
received, but will close down to day and
remain idle while the strike is adjusted
The closing of the mines has thrown out of
work 5000 men and boys at the IIehigh and
Wilkesbarre Company's mines; $50 at the
Hanover Company's; 500 at the Red ASH
400 Mt the Bennett COMMANDS, and 500 at